Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LAVELLE Pittsburgh...
...superintendent of a major U.S. school system, has come a long way from Ellensburg, Wash., where he attended Central Washington College and later taught after serving in the Marines as a World War II Japanese-language officer. Before saying yes to Baltimore, he passed up an offer to head Pittsburgh's public school system. Early this year he traveled through Western Europe with a State Department-sponsored educational leaders' seminar. Says George Brain: "European and American education seem to be moving closer together in purpose and objectives. Europe is broadening the opportunity for education to more and more...
Born. To Earl Belle, 27, Pittsburgh's boy wonder of finance, who ran off to Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro, and Naoma Wallman, 25, blondish showgirl: their first child, a son; in Rio de Janeiro. Name: Clint Randolph. Weight...
Strikebrinkism. To try to bring pressure for a settlement, David J. McDonald, boss of the 1,250,000-member United Steelworkers union, had slipped away last week from bargaining sessions, flown to Pittsburgh for a private talk with Vice President Nixon. McDonald pleaded for government help to break the deadlock. He remembered the record 62½? , three-year wage package won by the steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly...
...office around 8. He has half a day's work done before most of his executives come in, sometimes embarrasses them by assuming that everyone keeps his hours and calling their offices before they arrive. He divides his time between his Park Avenue apartment in Manhattan and Pittsburgh (where his living quarters are right in the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building...